If you are a cop and you catch juveniles smoking marijuana — a plant safer than cigarettes, kills cancer cells, improves lung function, and leads to greater structural and functional connectivity in the brain — what will be your instant reaction?
Well, according to...

It seems Pope Francis has a problem with the victims of pedophiles; until proof of Bishop Juan Barros's complicity in hiding evidence of Reverend Fernando Karadima's sex crimes is presented to him, accusations against Barros are "all calumny".
Chilean Reverand Karadima had been sentenced by the...

Richard Scarborough, an Ohio deputy, fatally shot 16-year-old Joseph Haynes when a fight broke out between the teenager, his family and Scarborough after Haynes attended a hearing involving a firearms charge against him at the Franklin County court in Columbus on January 17.
Haynes’ grandmother,...

FoxCoNN is well-known for the inhumane treatment of its workers, leading to mass suicides in 2010. Horrible work conditions, extremely poor pay and suicides are not what Apple wants you to associate with the latest overpriced iPhone.
Thus, Apple was forced to apply pressure to the...

A Swedish Zoo has admitted it has killed nine healthy lion cubs over the last six years because it couldn't afford them.
Borås Djurpark, a zoo stretching more than 20 kilometres in southern Sweden, argued it euthanized them because they became 'surplus animals', because they...

Girls in Ghana have been banned from crossing the river while having their period - and on Tuesdays. The ban was apparently issued by a 'river god' as he did not want the River Ofin to be polluted by the vaginal bleeding. Thanks to the...

A federal court in Illinois has allowed 11-year-old Ashley Surin to use marijuana to treat her seizures during school hours. Ashley, a 6th grader at Schaumburg School District 54, was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 2. Though she overcame the dreaded disease with...

It's a David and Goliath story for the ages and one that you'll not see portrayed fairly or at all in the mainstream media. Our protagonist is an indigenous tribe known as the Yaquis. They stand against Sempra Energy, a multi-billion dollar corporation, and the...

Over 170 million Americans are drinking tap water contaminated with radioactive elements, such as radon, uranium and the most prevalent, radium. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released the results of a 5-year study, reporting on data gathered on nearly 50,000 public water systems.
The data...

A teacher from Ohio has been reprimanded and ordered to undergo cultural sensitivity training for telling a black student he would be lynched if he didn't stop talking in class and focus on his work.
Renee Thole, the eighth-grade social studies teacher at Mason Middle...